Drawing heavily from Bloom's Taxonomy, this new book helps teachers understand and implement a standards-based curriculum. An extraordinary group of cognitive psychologists, curriculum specialists, teacher-educators, and researchers have developed a two-dimensional framework, focusing on knowledge and cognitive processes, that defines what students are expected to learn in scho...(展开全部)

Embodying advances in cognitive psychology since the publication of Bloom's taxonomy, this revision of that framework is designed to help teachers understand and implement standards-based curriculums as well as facilitate constructing and analyzing their own. A revision only in the sense that it builds on the original framework, it is a completely new manuscript in both text an...(展开全部)

How did we conclude that the best way to prepare kids for the future is to cluster them into classrooms by age and grade, forcing them to learn the same things, at the same time and pace, seven hours a day, five days a week, for twelve years? We trust the school system to prepare our kids for the future. We get excited when they get good grades, or disappointed if they don’t. B...(展开全部)

This is the long-awaited update on the bestselling book that offers a practical, accessible reference manual for faculty in any discipline. This new edition contains up-to-date information on technology as well as expanding on the ideas and strategies presented in the first edition. It includes more than sixty-one chapters designed to improve the teaching of beginning, mid-care...(展开全部)

I've read countless books on teaching strategies over the years, and I can't think of one that compares--in depth, breadth, accessibility, and practicality--to this one. Tools for Teaching has much to say to teachers of all ranks, disciplines, and institutions. --Mary Deane Sorcinelli, director, Center for Teaching, University of Massachusetts, Amherst A rich compendium of cla...(展开全部)

《高效学习:我们所知道的理解性教学》是美国斯坦福大学教授、奥巴马政府现行教育政策改革团队领导人琳达·达林-哈蒙德(Linda Darling-Hammond)与布里基·巴伦(Brigid Barron)等7位知名学者花了十多年的时间开展学习研究的成果。他们基于人是如何学习的理论观点，聚焦于阅读与素养、数学、科学这三大主要学科领域，从理论和实践层面探索了“理解性教学”的教学形式(基于项目学习、基于设计的学习和基于问题的学习)，阐释了在新技术的强大支持下，革新课堂学习环境，促进高效学习的策略以及影响这些策略有效性的因素与条件。他们还提出了变革学校体系，为理解性教学建立学校的主张。 In Powerful Learning, Linda Darling-Hammond and an impressive list of co-authors offer a...(展开全部)

"Solving problems," writes Polya, "is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: You can learn it only by imitation and practice. This book cannot offer you a magic key that opens all the doors and solves all the problems, but it offers you good examples for imitation and many opportunities for practice: If you wish to learn swimming you have to go into th...(展开全部)

“How to Solve It” is not strictly speaking a math book. It is a book about how to solve problems of any kind, of which math is just one type of problem. The same techniques could in principle be used to solve any problem one encounters in life (such as how to choose the best wife??). Therefore, Polya wrote the current volume to explain how the techniques set forth in "How to So...(展开全部)